What shall I call

And so has a crocodile, and so has a quail-They’ve all got tails but me.If I had sixpence I would buy one;I’d say to the shopman, ‘Let me try one’;I’d say to the elephant, ‘This is my one.’They’d all come round to see.Then I’d say to the lion, ‘Why, you’ve got a tail!And so has…

I am waiting here to seeWhich the winning one will be.Both of them have different names.One is John and one is James.All the best and all the worstComes from which of them is first.James has just begun to ooze.He’s the one I want to lose.John is waiting to begin.He’s the one I want to win.James…

Whatever I do, he wants to do,‘Where are you going today?’ says Pooh:‘Well, that’s very odd ‘cos I was too.Let’s go together,’ says Pooh, says he.‘Let’s go together,’ says Pooh.‘What’s twice eleven?’ I said to Pooh.(‘Twice what?’ said Pooh to Me.)‘I think it ought to be twenty-two.’‘Just what I think myself,’ said Pooh.‘It wasn’t an…

Five on the high wall,And four on the low;Big Kings and Little Kings,Brown Bears and Black,All of them waitingTill John comes back.Some think that John boyIs lost in the wood,Some say he couldn’t be,Some say he could.Some think that John boyHides on the hill;Some say he won’t come back,Some say he will.High was the sun,…

A Bishop than a Major-Gen.,And nothing since has made me warlike;But when this agelong struggle endsAnd I have seen the Allies dish upThe goose of Hindenburg—oh, friends!I shall out-bish the mildest Bishop.When the War is over and the Kaiser’s out of print,I’m going to buy some tortoises and watch the beggars sprint;When the War is…

I shouldn’t much careIf it froze or snew;I shouldn’t much mindIf it snowed or friz—I’d be all fur-linedWith a coat like his!For I’d have fur boots and a brown fur wrap,And brown fur knickers and a big fur cap.I’d have a fur muffle-ruff to cover my jaws,And brown fur mittens on my big brown paws.With…